Sorry for not using any of my target languages in this post; I just wanted to get this down on "paper" before I forget about it.

When it comes to language learning, I'm quite adventurous. If I don't know how to do something in a language, I assume it's because I haven't gotten to it yet, not because it's outside of my capabilities.

With sports, I am not like that at all. I don't enjoy them much, and I've only learned one sport to decent proficiency: tennis. Well, yesterday, I did something outside of my comfort zone: volleyball. I was among friends who know that I'm new to sports, so I felt calm enough to try something new.

As the ball whizzed past me, I realized that unlike in tennis, I wasn't able to track its trajectory. I didn't know how to position my body to receive the ball when it came. But I also realized something crucial.

I can learn these things.

I got a sense of how volleyballs behaved and thought to myself, "Remember all those times you sat listening to hour-long talks in Spanish, only catching a word or two from time to time? Your ears got used to the sounds and flow of the language. You couldn't respond to people yet, but that time spent in ear training was valuable."

In the same way, I have much practicing to do before I truly feel in control of a moving volleyball, but now I know it's only a matter of time before I get there 😌

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Note about the title: Some of you might be wondering why the title says "real quick note" instead of "really quick note." While "really" is correct in this instance, substituting "real" for "really" is very common in casual settings in American English. "That's some real hot coffee you['ve] got there."